Lines in Sand

Lines in Sand

Author(s) & Contributor(s)
Peter Gelderloos
Publication Year
2010
Geographic Location
Not listed
Language
English
Number of Pages
31
Physical Description
Half-page, white coloured zine. Printed in black and white. Front cover has an image of circular shapes resembling bubbles in a cluster, with the title. The Back cover carries over the same circle shapes as well.
Summary
A compliation of three essays that explore identity, oppression, and social war within the anarchist movement.

"...Recognizing that we'll never all agree on anything, and this is good, I want to argue nonetheless that a needed common ground is an understanding and embrace of social war. I'm afraid that those who speak of oppression without acknowledging the war we are a part of, not as metaphor but as a real and current practice, will only succeed in turning a battlefield into a garden, decorating this cemetery of a society with flowers and accessibility ramps. I don't care to argue that one side or another is necessarily more correct, only that revolution becomes impossible not when we enter into the current historical era but when we start believing in civil society and stop noticing that the guns are pointed at us too."